Reissued children’s book favorites forthcoming this season include an historical middle grade novel offering a wartime adventure story, rereleased stories by an award-winning children’s author, and influential picture books revived in print for a new generation of readers. Read on for these and more children’s books re-emerging this spring and summer.

Winter in Wartime

By Jan Terlouw (Feb. 4, NYRB Kids, $12.99, ISBN 978-1-68137-426-0).

Set in Nazi-occupied Holland during WWII, this novel is a tense, fast-paced story of a boy whose job running bicycle errands turns perilous when a Nazi is found murdered in his town. The novel was originally published in Dutch in 1973, where it won the Golden Pen Prize. In 1976, the first English translation was published by McGraw Hill; NYRB Kids here reissues the novel with a new English translation.

Fight the Night

By Tomie dePaola (Feb. 11, S&S, $17.99, ISBN 978-1-5344-4373-0).

Originally published in 1968, this de Paola picture book is refreshed and reissued. The story is a guide for children on how to “fight the night” and stay up past their bedtime, as readers are  led from bedrooms through the dark by Ronald, the book’s flashlight-wielding protagonist.

A Traveller in Time

By Alison Uttley (Feb. 11, NYRB Kids, $12.99, ISBN 978-1-68137-448-2).

Written by Uttley and featuring illustrations by painter Phyllis Bray, this English novel from 1939 was brought back into print in 2011 by NYRB and is now reissued in paperback. The middle grade novel, set in 1934, follows a girl named Penelope who is often in ill health and is prone to flights of fancy. Penelope finds herself transported intermittently to Elizabethan England, where she becomes part of a family who are fighting to free Mary Queen of Scots from her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth I.

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By Sarah Perry (Mar. 3, Getty, $16.99, ISBN 978-1-947440-05-0).

Artist Sarah Perry’s 1995 picture book is here reissued for its 25th anniversary in a paper-over-board format, expanded with updated back matter to encourage readers to engage with their imaginations. Each spread in Perry’s surrealist picture book offers a realistic depiction of an impossibility.

This Land Is Your Land

By Woody Guthrie, illus. by Kathy Jakobsen (Mar. 3, Little, Brown, $18.99, ISBN 978-0-316-45805-4).

The lyrics of Guthrie’s famous 1940 folk song were illuminated by Jakobsen’s paintings in 1998. Here reissued in a new edition with refreshed design, the picture book includes a scrapbook, lyrics and music notation, as well as additional background materials on the book, the song, and the nation it depicts.

The Cloud Book

By Tomie dePaola (Mar. 17, Holiday House, $17.99, ISBN 978-0-8234-4548-6).

Originally published in 1975, dePaola’s picture book has been redesigned and reissued for a new audience. Science, mythology, and fantasy meet in the Caldecott Honor- and Newbery Honor-winning author’s picture book. Types of clouds are introduced to readers of this nonfiction picture book, as well as historical and imaginative interpretations of the dreamy phenomena. 

I’ll Fix Anthony

By Judith Viorst, illus. by Arnold Lobel (Apr. 14, S&S/Atheneum, $17.99, ISBN 978-1-5344-0481-6).

The bestselling author of 1972’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and the Caldecott Medalist behind the Frog and Toad books teamed up in 1988 to create this picture book, which is now refreshed in a new hardcover edition. The picture book follows the younger brother of the titular Anthony, who bides his time until his sixth birthday when he’ll finally be big enough to prove himself.

Moonbear

by Frank Asch (June 16, S&S/Aladdin, $17.99, ISBN 978-1-4814-8063-5).

First published in 1979, Asch’s Moonbear—following a bear who loves the moon but can’t figure out how to keep it full in the sky—has since led to a 10-volume picture book series, a spin-off Baby Bear series now numbering five volumes, three full-color picture books related to the family, and three board book editions. This redesigned hardcover edition reissues the book that started it all.